Almost every Sunday my mother made banana pudding. She didn’t finish hers off with cookie crumbs the way we do at the restaurant, because in the old days the broken cookie pieces came straight to me.

With homemade vanilla pudding, sweetened condensed milk (the secret ingredient no one talks about), and mascarpone, this truly is the best (and easiest) banana pudding recipe. Many recipes call for ...

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